I went to a local train show and found one of these in a sealed box made by Menards. I did some checking and found out the Elkader Ia. Depot Project is selling these for a fundraising project. Their old Depot was a Milwaukee depot in its day and they are building a new one in its place. The only one that's not a Menards is the stock car. You can get more info by looking up the project on Facebook. 
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You must have every single item Menard's has made for O scale trains! You rock!
I would take a bunch of these auto carriers from MTH since no one has offered nice true O scale 60's style carriers so far. RK's look silly. Smaller, two tier true O cars would be fine to fit under low bridges. These are Non - OEM poor workmanship home made models.
NYC green would be my road choice of stick on names as repainted.
Don't understand why a 60's model has MODERN autos? Need to change that.
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I check one out and re-do it soon.
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mike g. posted:You must have every single item Menard's has made for O scale trains! You rock!
Mike, if you need a picture of all Menards products produced, let me know.
Bro, I have a hundred copies of every box truck Menards has produced! LOL
The open-frame auto carrier needs to be painted in a more reasonable 1960's TRAILER TRAIN scheme.
Andrew
falconservice posted:The open-frame auto carrier needs to be painted in a more reasonable 1960's TRAILER TRAIN scheme.
Andrew
I got one of these for Christmas (Yaaayyyyyyyyyy!)
The flatcar is one of Menard's 14-3/4" flat cars (measured across the coupler knuckles). (Yaaayyyyyyyyyy).
From the flatcar floor up, the superstructure appears to be made from some sort of laser-cut masonite (hmmmmm), glued together and factory painted with gloss black paint applied with a mop (hmmmmm).
The late-model, out-of era cars (boooooo!) are screwed to the floor decks (well, okay!).
The entire super structure appears to be glued to the flat car frame. The autos on the flat car floor should be easy to unscrew and remove (Yaaayyyyy!). The autos on the upper floor deck - not so easy (booooooo!).
If I can't get the cars off of the upper deck, my auto carrier may be up for sale at a future train show at a heavily discounted price (yaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!). I think. 
I must add guys, all these cars were made for the Elkader Depot project. Yes, some are common off the shelf but all have the Elkader sticker on them
The 3 flat cars are marked Milwaukee and are brown, which have Never been produced for sale by Menards on their website or in stores which makes them highly collectable.
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